#providence

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3) ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#faith #god #jesus-christ #providence #faith

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #faith #god #jesus-christ #prayer

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #providence #faith

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives. ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#fortune #friendship #impact #love #meeting

God schedules a birthday, not man. ↗

— Robert A. Bradley

#calendar #children #hurry #life #patience

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#success #talent #money

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#children #drunkards #idiots #protects #providence

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bending #blind #defenseless #erect #eyes

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! ↗

— Victor Hugo

#blessed be #child #devil #doll #each

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#argument #armed #blithe #calls #come